Bowlaway mccracken5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() According to Bertha, one can bowl away anything: financial troubles, a bad marriage, grief, time. Laden with a bowling ball, a candlepin, 15 pounds of gold, and a disrobed corset, she awakens on the frost covered ground, limbs akimbo and spirits high, ready to proselytize Salford’s citizens to her one true religion: bowling. It’s no matter Bertha holds no mysteries about what she’ll make of herself. When asked what she was doing, sleeping on the frozen grass beneath the Pickersgills family obelisk, she simply replies, “I was dreaming of love.” The residents of the small, early twentieth century Massachusetts town in Elizabeth McCracken's first novel in 18 years don’t know what to make of her. ![]() ![]() When Bertha Truitt’s body is found in the Salford Cemetery - above ground, alive - no one, including Bertha, knows how she got there. ![]()
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